The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

September 1998

The LA Fox Developer is the monthly newsletter of the LA Fox Developers Group. The purpose is information sharing among application developers and users working with FoxPro.

LA Fox Address

LA Fox

P.O. Box 6624

Huntington Beach, CA 92615-6624

LA Fox Board of Directors

Barry R. Lee, President/Newsletter Editor

Bill Anderson, Vice President/Programs

Twila Miller, Treasurer/Membership

Chuck Williams, President Emeritus

George Dvorak

Bill Seldon

Mike Cummings

Michael Meer

George Porter

LA Fox is the oldest FoxPro developer’s group in Southern California. The newsletter contains regular columns as well as articles from other user groups.

XPro User Group

2210 Wilshire Blvd. -#161

Santa Monica, GA 90403

OC FoxPro Developers Group

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The annual membership fee for the LA Fox Developers Group, including subscription to The LA Fox Developer Newsletter, is $48.

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Out and About (Con’t from Page 1)

pageframe forms, and a framework for an application toolbar/menu complex. Each is based on the “mother of all frameworks” and leverages its elegant event handling, state propagation, design pattern intensive implementation to unify and simplify the design process. Come and learn about applied design patterns, COP orthodoxy, and why Peter says “If you love your objects, set them free.”

Coming in December!!! The LA Fox Christmas Party.

Elsewhere

ADVISOR Developer Workshop, October 5-6, 1998, Phoenix, Ari

zona, Pointe Hilton Resort at Squaw Peak. The power of Visual FoxPro 6.0 is awesome, but you need to learn how to use it. That’s the purpose of ADVISOR Developer Workshop on Visual FoxPro 6.0. Presented by VFP DevCon speakers, book authors, and experts Rod Paddock and John Petersen, you’ll attend 10 sessions packed with professional guidance on how to migrate to and master Visual FoxPro 6.0. Whether you missed DevCon in May or you’re ready for hard-core training, this is the Visual FoxPro workshop that will get you going. Space is absolutely limited, so sign up soon and bring a friend. For further info, go to http:// www.advisor.com/fw9810c.nsf/wPages/Main.

Microsoft Office and VBA Solutions Conference & Expo, Oct. 11-15 Los Angeles, CA. Microsoft and Information Communications Group are excited to present this series of hard-core technical conferences that cover all aspects of suiution development using Microsoft Offic Visual Basic fur Applications, Microsoft BackOffice, and third-party, VBA-enabled applications like AutoCAD, Visio, and Great Plains Dynamics. Learn how to use the latest features in Office and VBA to create information-based solutions for the corporate environment. For more information, visit http://

Visual FoxExpress DevCon, Nov. 8-11, 1998, at Treasure Island, Las Vegas, NV. They’re doing it again. (See the article on page 4.)

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FoxPro Q&A (Con't from page 4)

REPLACE rpttbl.child2 WITH rpttbl.child2+Ijstring+CHR(1 3)

*Append this line to the memo field in new parent ENDSCAN

Now you have a new parent table that you can report as a flat file, putting the memos side by side if required.

If you need subtotals for the child etc.,

1. Calculate those with an SQL SELECT

2. Add dummy fields to hold them when you do the first select, to add the

dummy memos to the parent, and then fill them in with a scan.

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